Payments Platform Engineer – Merchant Solutions & Transactions

ByteDance; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

ByteDance is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Global Payment team focused on Merchant Product and Payment Solutions. You will take end-to-end ownership of merchant payment scenarios, design and optimize modules across onboarding, processing, and settlement, and drive system improvements for performance and reliability.

The role emphasizes financial-grade reliability, risk controls, and scalable architectures to support ByteDance platforms including TikTok.

Qualifications

• Proficient in Java or Go with backend frameworks.
• Experience with distributed architectures and high-concurrency processing.
• Understanding of financial-grade requirements for availability and data consistency.

Responsibilities

• Own merchant payment business scenarios across the full payment lifecycle.
• Develop and optimize payment modules: onboarding, processing, clearing, settlement, invoicing.
• Drive core system optimization and technical upgrades for secure operations.
• Improve system performance, scalability, and high availability.
• Strengthen financial risk control and industry compliance capabilities.
• Adopt advanced technologies and engineering practices to improve R&D efficiency.

Skills

Java

Go

Backend frameworks

Distributed architecture

High concurrency

Tools

Caching

Message queues

Databases

Job description

ByteDance is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Global Payment team focused on Merchant Product and Payment Solutions. You will take end-to-end ownership of merchant payment scenarios, design and optimize modules across onboarding, processing, and settlement, and drive system improvements for performance and reliability.

The role emphasizes financial-grade reliability, risk controls, and scalable architectures to support ByteDance platforms including TikTok.